Compressed Quotes
54 quotes by 50 authors
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Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee... I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I…
— Margaret Atwood
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Sport is where an entire life can be compressed into a few hours, where the emotions of a lifetime can be felt on an acre…
— George A. Sheehan
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In art, truth and reality begin when one no longer understands what one is doing or what one knows, and when there remains an energy…
— Henri Matisse
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Intentions compressed into words enfold magical power.
— Deepak Chopra
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Whether our feet are compressed in iron shoes, our faces hidden with veils and masks; whether yoked with cows to draw the plow through its…
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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I love the combination of smartness, pain, and what one might call conscious postmodern trashiness in this book: a version of the erotic full of…
— Alicia Ostriker
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A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble
— Remy de Gourmont
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What the newer landscape artists see in a circle of a hundred degrees in Nature they press together unmercifully into an angle of vision of…
— Caspar David Friedrich
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Do not think of yourself as a small, compressed, suffering thing. Think of yourself as graceful and expanding, no matter how unlikely it may seem…
— B.K.S. Iyengar
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Poets talk about "spots of time", but it is really the fishermen who experience eternity compressed into a moment. No one can tell what a…
— Norman Maclean
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Modern economics is a set of formal models and equations purporting to fully determine human behaviour, at least in the economic realm. And there is…
— Murray Rothbard
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Love was compressed for all history in that lonely figure on the cross, who said that he could call down angels at any moment on…
— Philip Yancey
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The life of a good dog is like the life of a good person, only shorter and more compressed,
— Anna Quindlen
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It's a tough marketplace right now... It is very compressed... A turnaround is likely to happen quicker than before.
— Peter Chernin
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Her heart of compressed ash, which had resisted the most telling blows of daily reality without strain, fell apart with the first waves of nostalgia.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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The most common way to identify a soldier is by the disc around his neck. But these were made of compressed cardboard and so they've…
— Chris Roberts
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Zalasiewicz is convinced that even a moderately competent stratigrapher will, at the distance of a hundred million years or so, be able to tell that…
— Elizabeth Kolbert
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There is no power on earth which can be kept long confined within a narrow limit. It cannot be kept compressed too long to allow…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Music is the inarticulate speech of the heart, which cannot be compressed into words, because it is infinite.
— Richard Wagner
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Compressed air can provide limitless amounts of clean energy using technology we have had for hundreds of years.
— Bill Mollison
Who Wrote These Compressed Quotes
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